Cap-button.



L. R. CARLEY.

CAP BUTTON. I APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10, 1914,

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LEONARD n. CARLEY, on WATERBURY, cominamour.

CAP-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

Application filed June 10, 1914. Serial No. 844,118.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, LEONARD R. CARLEY, a subject of His Majesty the King of Great Britain, and a resident of lVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connectiout, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cap-Buttons, ofv

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in buttons, and more particularly to such as are used for ornamental purposes in connection with hats, caps, etc., and which are usually covered with cloth of the same material from which the cap is made, or colored to harmonize with the color of said cap, the object of the invention being to provide an article of this kind which shall consist of but few parts, cheap to manufacture, readily assembled, and which, when completed, may be easily and readily attached to the cap without the aid of tools or button setting machinery.

A further object is to provide a button of circular outline and having a fastening plate from which project prongs, the same being located adjacent the edges of the fastening plate and adapted to engage the material to which the button is to be secured and to compress the same against the sides of a web which extends diametrically across practically the entire attaching plate, so that the button is held to a cap or other article and prevented from rotating or canting with respect thereto. Thus should a cap be clasped by the button and whirled about, or other excessive strains brought to bear upon the securement between the button and the cap, there will be no danger or likelihood of the button becoming torn or disengaged therefrom.

lVith these and other ends in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the disk of cloth, fabric or other material with which the button is covered. 7

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the metal cap or shell. 7

Fig. 3 is a similar view of the'attaching plate.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view button.

of the finished Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the finished button.

.Fig. 6 isa similar view of amodifiedform I of the button, and

Fig. 7 is a sectionalview of thecompleted button after being attached'to a cap or other article. 1 p

As will be seen by reference to the drawings, the button consists preferably of three parts or elements, viz., the disk of'cloth or fabric 10, comprising the outer covering of the button, an attaching plate 11, anda metal shell 12; although, if desired, as will hereinafter be explained, the disk of cloth or fabric 10 may be omitted, the shell 12 in such instance being that portion of the article exposed to view.

The attaching plate 11 consists, as clearly illustrated in perspective in Fig. 3', of a circular plate or disk of metal 13, formed from thin sheet metal, and so slitted to provide pointed outwardly extending prongs 14, the openings in the plate being triangular in form, the prongs being integral or united with the plate at their bases, and at opposite sides of the disk, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4.

The V-shaped slits with which the attaching plate 11 is provided extend practically the entire distance across the plate and are oppositely arranged, so that the base of one of the prongs is adjacent the apex of the other of said prongs, and both the bases and apices are adjacent the side edges of the plate when the prongs are bent into their closed positions. Furthermore, the prong openings are arranged side by side, so that a diametric web 14, extending across the major portion of the plate, is provided, and

, has openings located on either side thereof,

in which the prongs are adapted to compress the material to which the button is to be attached.

The shell 12 is preferably stamped, or otherwise formed, from thin sheet metal, and comprises a dome-shaped top plate 15 having integral therewith the circular flange 16, the flange being of such width or depth as to permit of the cloth or fabric 10 being contained between the outer edge or periphery of the plate 13, and the'inner side or surface. of said flange 16,.as illustrated, in 7 Figs. 5' and 7 i V r Instead of employing a disk of cloth" or fabric as above described, such may be said plate in position. The shell 18 in this instance is, as in the former instance, stamped, or otherwise formed from sheet metal, the plate 19 being provided with the pointed prongs 20 formed in identically the same way as in the instance bei'ore described, that is, by slitting the plate to Form converging edges oi? the prongs, the latter being pointed at one end and integral at their bases with the plate 19.

What I claim is A button comprising a circular cap, a circular fastening plate comprising a disk having integral pointed prongs projecting therefrom, the prongs being joined to the disk adjacent the edges thereof, said disk including a diametrically extending veb projecting across the center of said plate and terminating adjacent the opposite edges of the disk, and having openings arranged on either side of said web, said prongs fitting within said openings and compressing the material to which the button is secured against the sides of said diametric web.

Signed at Vaterbury in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, this sixth day of June, A. D. 191%.

' LEONARD R. CARLFY lVitnesses O. E. BRENNEIS, M. DUNN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

